Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab

by situational87 on 8/21/2019, 5:37 PM with 19 comments
  • by kryogen1c on 8/21/2019, 7:16 PM

    What a worthless article. Was this machine generated? There is literally zero information in it.

    >“Mustafa is taking time out right now after 10 hectic years,” a DeepMind spokeswoman said. She didn’t say why he was put on leave.

    Its like someone heard a rumor and fed the quote into an article generator that pulled related snippets about moose. If this is a public spokeswoman, why is she unnamed? This isn't reporting.

  • by defertoreptar on 8/21/2019, 7:05 PM

    Had to find an alternate source due to the paywall:

    https://fortune.com/2019/08/21/google-deepmind-co-founder-le...

  • by buboard on 8/21/2019, 7:54 PM

    Another non paywall source:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-cofounder-mustafa-s...

    hn should really stop linking paywalls, it's unethical to the publishers who chose to put their content behind them.

  • by sigmonsays on 8/21/2019, 7:27 PM

    Why is it so common to link paywall articles here?

    is this just a strategy to get us to sign up ?

  • by catacombs on 8/21/2019, 7:28 PM

    I wonder if something serious happened for him to take a leave of absence. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if, by tomorrow, sexual allegations came out.